Log-concave and concave distributions in reliability

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 419-433

  Sengupta, Debasis ^a   Nanda, Asok K ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RELIABILITY; SERVICE LIFE; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CONCAVE DISTRIBUTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM DISTRIBUTION; LOG CONCAVE DISTRIBUTIONS; PERFECT PAIR; RELIABILITY BOUND; REVERSED HAZARD RATE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 0033149027     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6750(199906)46:4<419::AID-NAV5>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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